{"id":71,"date":"2007-07-06T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegobutton.net\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2011-07-02T19:16:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T23:16:39","slug":"king-and-i-approaches-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/king-and-i-approaches-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"King and I Approaches Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting in the theatre, approximately 21 hours before tech begins.  I got my cues at the paper tech this morning and have some time to kill before the 1:30 rehearsal.  The paper tech moved along quickly, and with some discussion of other production-related issues, came in just under two hours, which is pretty much perfection.  I&#8217;ve done some for more complicated shows that have taken four hours.  Approximately 140 light cues, so not a very busy show, but enough to keep me entertained.  Just on paper, I see a few cues I&#8217;m already looking forward to.  I think the &#8220;Small House of Uncle Thomas&#8221; ballet will be fun, but not too hard as to embarrass me, as long as I can keep following along quickly enough.  Shouldn&#8217;t need to call anything off the score, which I like.  My opinions on that change, but with recent shows I&#8217;ve tried to reduce it, because I find that following the score means keeping your head in the music too much and not looking at the stage.  Even with <i>Singin&#8217; in the Rain<\/i>, I called the 13-minute ballet off the score, but in reality I only really followed the music for a couple cues, and for the most part just flipped ahead to the next cue and knew what it was, so I could be looking and listening instead of being buried in the book and counting.<\/p>\n<p>Took this picture just a few minutes ago:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/palace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/palace-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"palace\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3599\" srcset=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/palace-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/palace-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/palace.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThey just put in our groundrow that will go behind the palace.  The picture doesn&#8217;t quite do it justice, but it&#8217;s really nicely painted, and the set looks fantastic under the lights.  I&#8217;m loving the gel colors on this show.<\/p>\n<p>Another picture I shot a few days ago but never had a post for:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/newdrop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/newdrop-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"newdrop\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/newdrop-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/newdrop-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/newdrop.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe drop you see downstage is brand new and was specially designed to match our set.  This is the &#8220;Corridor drop&#8221; which is used for almost all the downstage scenes.  The audience spends a lot of time looking at it, so it&#8217;s a good thing it&#8217;s pretty.  This was taken right after it arrived and was hung.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting in the theatre, approximately 21 hours before tech begins. I got my cues at the paper tech this morning and have some time to kill before the 1:30 rehearsal. The paper tech moved along quickly, and with some discussion of other production-related issues, came in just under two hours, which is pretty much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,6],"tags":[75,136,135,242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3598,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/3598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headsetchatter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}